Medical Musings: MIT's Langer Lab is a business incubator

08/24/2012

America's greatest strength in the future global economy is the ability to generate whole new technologies—whole new ways of looking at a problem or opportunity. Steve Jobs and Apple—now the largest company ever to exist—are the obvious example in personal electronics.

A great example in the medical field is chemical engineer Robert Langer, whose work in developing new plastics has spawned 25 companies and helped create billion-dollar businesses (drug-eluting stents) for companies like Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific.

He joined the MIT faculty 35 years ago and is now one of 14 professors holding the title of Institute Professor—the highest honor awarded to a faculty member. He runs the largest biomedical engineering lab in the world....Read more www.k-online.de

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